Deus ex Cicada: Are Predatory Bird Populations Influenced by Cicadas Odd Life Cycles?
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 08:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
As the first day of spring approaches a scientific mystery will soon return with a roar-- the 2013 return of the east coast b rood of cicadas, or Brood II. Now a team of scientists hint they may have a solution as to why this brood and its fellows bizarrely emerge only after lulls more than a decade long--to control their surroundings in ways that may lead to crashes in numbers of predatory birds. [More]